| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.09.2024 | Scot-Secure West | Proactive Security Made Simple and Human | Speaking to a packed audience at this year’s opening session of Scot-Secure West 2024, Celine Pypaert gave insight into why security professionals should spend time learning how to communicate more effectively with those outside the cyberse... |
| 20.08.2024 | Nightingale Health attains UKCA marking for its blood analysis technology to bring its technology to healthcare use in the United Kingdom | Nightingale Health attains UKCA marking for its blood analysis technology to bring its technology to healthcare use in the United Kingdom
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| 15.08.2024 | Sleep Patterns and Diabetes: A Wake-Up Call for Health | Sleep is the silent architect of our health. A recent study shines a spotlight on its role in diabetes prevention. Conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the findings reveal a startling connection between sleep irregulari... |
| 15.08.2024 | Pioneering study identifies six genetic regions associated with normal pressure hydrocephalus | Pioneering study identifies six genetic regions associated with normal pressure hydrocephalus
Thu, Aug 15, 2024 07:00 CET Report this content
A new study by the University of Eastern Finland and partners identified new genetic variants asso... |
| 14.08.2024 | Исследование: продолжительность сна влияет на риск развития диабета | Исследования показывают, что соблюдение регулярного режима сна может помочь в профилактике диабета 2 типа, а нерегулярный сон повышает риск развития диабета на 34%. Это говорит о том, что управление режимом сна может стать ключевой стратеги... |
| 31.07.2024 | AI Helps Scots Scientists Predict Diseases 10 Years in Advance | Scottish scientists using AI to analyse medical data have been able to predict a person’s probability of developing conditions such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s up to 10 years before a diagnosis.
The researchers have used ... |
| 25.07.2024 | UK Biobank Gets Millions to Boost Health Data Storage Capabilities | The UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource, has received a £16 million boost to upgrade how it uses and stores its growing wealth of health data.
Announced today by the science and technology secretary Peter K... |
| 28.06.2024 | 23andMe partners with Finnish risk detection company Nightingale Health | Nightingale's platform can measure dozens of biomarkers from a single blood sample
Nightingale Health is a Helsinki-based technology company promoting preventative health through a health risk detection platform. The company has developed a... |
| 07.05.2024 | Ученые установили связь между питанием и здоровьем мозга | Новое исследование, проведенное учеными из Университета Уорика, демонстрирует глубокую связь между выбором рациона питания и здоровьем мозга, предполагая, что сбалансированный выбор рациона способствует улучшению когнитивного и психического... |
| 12.04.2024 | Inside Information: Nightingale Health enters into agreement to analyze 50,000 blood samples with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. | Inside Information: Nightingale Health enters into agreement to analyze 50,000 blood samples with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Fri, Apr 12, 2024 06:15 CET Report this content
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| 05.03.2024 | Soda Sippers Beware: Study Shows Elevated Risk of Heart Condition with Sugary and Diet Drinks | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 05 March 2024, 04:03 pm
Sugary or diet-related beverages may raise the risk of developing a serious heart disease, according to research published in the American Heart Association journal "Circulation: Arrhythmi... |
| 09.02.2024 | Biotech Sector Gets £100M in New Funding From UK Government | Biotech firms helping to pioneer new technologies to prepare for pandemics, protect against floods, innovative farming, and more have been awarded £100 million from the UK government.
Six new “Engineering Biology Mission Hubs” and 22 “Missi... |
| 29.11.2023 | With latest tranche, U.K. Biobank has genome sequences from 500,000 people available for research | LONDON — Data from half a million people’s whole genome sequences are now available to researchers worldwide, as the U.K. Biobank on Thursday debuted the latest addition to what it aims to be the world’s most comprehensive health data resou... |
| 12.11.2023 | UK Biobank's Controversial Sharing of Sensitive Health Data Raises Alarms | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 12 November 2023, 11:11 am
Insurance firms were granted access to private health information that almost 500,000 UK individuals provided via UK Biobank for medical research, despite earlier claims to the contrary, per... |
| 19.06.2023 | How to separate sound wellness solutions from seductive snake oil | When pandemic lockdowns prevented access to traditional health care facilities, the demand for alternative and complementary health products skyrocketed. Do-it-yourself remedies went viral and biohacking, which is quantifying your biology i... |
| 06.06.2023 | Nightingale Health’s strategic collaboration with UK Biobank progresses: Biomarker results of additional 200,000 blood samples soon available to researchers globally | Nightingale Health’s strategic collaboration with UK Biobank progresses: Biomarker results of additional 200,000 blood samples soon available to researchers globally
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| 25.05.2023 | U.K. unveils $800 million package to bolster life sciences amid concern over biopharma investments | LONDON — The U.K. government on Thursday unveiled an $800 million package to bolster the life sciences, highlighting officials’ efforts to grow the industry even as biopharma companies have raised alarms about policies they say are deterrin... |
| 03.05.2023 | Use The Power of Plants For Better Brain Health | A new study reveals that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and whole grains could reduce your chances of developing dementia. WASHINGTON,, DC, USA, May 3, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Someone in the world develops dementia every three s... |
| 28.03.2023 | Mental Illness May Speed Up the Aging Process, Study Finds | Mental illness is a notorious thief, stealing joy, peace, and ease from the estimated one billion people worldwide who suffer from it. Now, it appears that mental illness steals still more too: years and youth. According to new research pre... |
| 28.03.2023 | World First: Researchers Link Dementia to Brain Damage Caused by High Blood Pressure | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 28 March 2023, 08:03 am
For the first time, researchers have pinpointed the regions of the brain that high blood pressure damages, potentially leading to cognitive decline and dementia.
High blood pressure has bee... |
| 18.03.2023 | Как одиночество перестраивает мозг
Одиночество меняет мозг таким образом, что это может помешать способности доверять и устанавливать отношения с другими людьми... | Одиночество меняет мозг таким образом, что это может помешать способности доверять и устанавливать отношения с другими людьми
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Научно-исследовательская антарктическая станция «Ноймайер III» расположена на краю безжалостного антаркти... |
| 01.10.2022 | International Coffee Day 2022: Here Are the Health Benefits of Coffe and Why You Should Drink it Everyday | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 01 October 2022, 07:10 am
It's National Coffee Day, and it's a perfect time to hail the drink that had kept us up every night when we needed to finish a bunch of paperwork and the times when we could not sta... |
| 29.07.2022 | A better understanding of human diversity is needed to equitably advance precision medicine | Precision medicine — tailoring a treatment to an individual’s disease — requires understanding the individual’s biological characteristics. Although medicine and biotech are making significant progress in this area, they have historically b... |
| 28.06.2022 | Genetic, environmental factors contribute to how socioeconomic status impacts the brain | A study in Science Advances has revealed correlations among socioeconomics, genetics, environmental factors and brain structure. Socioeconomic status is typically defined by characteristics such as an individual's income, education and occu... |
| 23.05.2022 | Buffalo shooting ignites a debate over the role of genetics researchers in white supremacist ideology | The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and injured three people in Buffalo, N.Y., last weekend left no questions about why he drove 200 miles to a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood an... |
| 05.05.2022 | Obesity Raises a Man's Odds for Fatal Prostate Cancer | THURSDAY, May 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Men with widening waistlines may be more likely to die from prostate cancer.
Specifically, a man's risk of dying from prostate cancer increases 7% for every 4-inch increase in belly fat, new researc... |
| 20.03.2022 | Можно ли определить поведение, просканировав мозг? Исследование показывает, что пока нет | В 2019 году нейробиолога Скотта Марека попросили опубликовать своё исследование в журнале, посвящённом развитию детей. Предыдущие работы показали, что различия в функциях мозга между детьми связаны с результатами тестов на интеллект. Марек ... |
| 04.08.2021 | Humanity launches ‘slow your aging’ app in the UK and raises $2.5M more from health investors | More than one smartphone app startup has tried to convince you that by using their app you will miraculously stave off the ravages of age and flab. All I need to do is flip open my phone and real off a few: Gyroscope, MyFitnessPal, Welltory... |
| 08.07.2021 | NVIDIA : CEO Unveils ‘First Big Bet' on Digital Biology Revolution with UK-Based Cambridge-1 | Introducing NVIDIA's 'first big bet' on the digital biology revolution, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Wednesday unveiled Cambridge-1, a $100 million investment that promises to harness partnerships across the U.K. for breakthroughs with a 'global... |
| 20.06.2021 | COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of gray matter and other brain tissue over time, a long-term study suggests | A patient's brain scan. toysf400/Shutterstock
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A new study has explored the potential impact of COVID-19 on people's brains.
It drew on data from UK Biobank, a database for genetic and health information.
The study, which is await... |
| 22.03.2021 | We need to start thinking more critically — and speaking more cautiously — about long Covid | A newspaper columnist reached out to me a while back after noticing a few of my tweets. As a pulmonary and critical care physician, I had made the point that researchers and journalists should speak more cautiously about a still-mysterious ... |
| 04.09.2020 | Genetic information can predict predisposition to rare and common blood diseases | Genetic information can predict predisposition to rare and common blood diseases
04-09-2020
Two large-scale genetic studies have identified the bulk of genetic variation that influences medically-important characteristics of our blood cells... |
| 20.08.2020 | IBM uses AI to evaluate risk of developing genetic diseases | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In a study published in the journal Nature Commun... |
| 20.08.2020 | IBM uses AI to evaluate risk of developing genetic diseases | In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists at IBM, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and health tech company Color detail evidence that the presence of genetic mutations isn’t a reliable precursor to genetic... |
| 09.06.2020 | DNAnexus raises $100M for a cloud-based analytics platform aimed at genomics and other clinical big data | DNAnexus, which provides a cloud platform for governments, universities, doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tap into DNA and other clinical data sets and collaborate on scientific research projects, is today announcing a big step ahead... |
| 23.10.2019 | Revolutionising cancer treatment with genomics: apply for funding | Revolutionising cancer treatment with genomics: apply for funding
23-10-2019
Businesses can apply for a share of up to £5.4 million for projects that apply whole genome sequencing to the analysis of cancer.
Genomics - the study of all of a ... |
| 11.09.2019 | Big Pharma joins £200M UK Biobank sequencing project; Monopar sets terms for $40M IPO | → The UK Biobank is kicking off an ambitious £200 million project to undertake whole-genome sequencing of 450,000 participants, probing the role that genetics plays in a range of common and chronic ailments including dem... |
| 12.03.2019 | High blood pressure, diabetes and obesity each linked to unhealthy brains | High blood pressure, diabetes and obesity each linked to unhealthy brains
12-03-2019
Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes are linked to less healthy brains, accor... |
| 11.03.2019 | New genetic data on 50,000 UK Biobank participants available for global health researchers | New genetic data on 50,000 UK Biobank participants available for global health researchers
11-03-2019
A vast tranche of new UK Biobank genetic data becomes available to health researchers today, offering an unprecedented resource to enhance... |
| 24.01.2019 | Genetic study reveals possible new routes to treating osteoarthritis | Genetic study reveals possible new routes to treating osteoarthritis
24-01-2019
In the largest genetic study of osteoarthritis to date, scientists have uncovered 52 new genetic changes linked to the disease, which doubles the number of gene... |
| 11.01.2019 | «Есть надежда, что первое лекарство от старости будет испытано на нашем поколении». Учёный, который собирается хакнуть старение, выступит 2 марта на конференции bulbacon... | Darina Obukhova 11 января 2019, 09:20 «Есть надежда, что первое лекарство от старости будет испытано на нашем поколении». Учёный, который собирается хакнуть старение, выступит 2 марта на конференции bulbacon
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| 21.05.2018 | UK Biobank data reveals new Alzheimer’s risk gene | UK Biobank data reveals new Alzheimer’s risk gene
21-05-2018
An international research team funded by the MRC, and led by scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Queensland, has identified three new genes linked to t... |
| 24.01.2012 | Adding Your DNA To A Biobank Is A Noble Move — But Is It A Wise One? | One new approach to teasing apart the complex relationships between genes and common diseases such as cancer, heart disease, asthma and diabetes is by creating huge biobanks of medical data and samples. The idea is that by tracking the heal... |
| - | COVID-19 associated with "significant, deleterious impact" on brain, finds U.K. study | Scans and cognition tests collected from hundreds of people suggest coronavirus infection is associated with "a significant, deleterious" change in the brain, according to a study published Monday from scientists in the United Kin... |
| - | Inside the drive to collect DNA from 1 million veterans and revolutionize medicine | “This is our brand new freezer,” Don Humphries said. “It holds 4 million vials.”
You’d think a freezer big enough to hold 4 million vials of blood would be easy to spot. But to my great embarrassment, I couldn’t see it.
Humphries and I were... |
